An elderly woman in Etawah of Uttar Pradesh hid behind a storage drum in her house to avoid getting inoculated against Covid-19 during a door-to-door vaccination drive in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah. A video which is now viral on social media depicts large-scale vaccine hesitancy plaguing India’s rural belt.
The elderly woman is seen crouching and hiding behind a drum in fear of the vaccine even as her family members and healthcare workers try to persuade her to come out.
She did emerge from her hiding eventually but was visibly scared at the sight of the healthcare workers conducting the vaccine drive and was heard refusing to take the dose.